Advice from Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced R Users
Ann Emery, Tony Fujs, Will Fenn
Programming language
Open Source
Very, VERY, active community of users
Powerful & flexible
Great dataviz capacities
Data analysis workflow
Toy example
Recode variables
Summary statistics
Visualization
Summary paragraph
Publish the results
Another data set
Some action…
1. Download & install R
2. Download & install R studio
3. Become familiar with the R environment
4. Learn to install packages
5. Take a free on-line class
6. Choose a project and stick with it!
7. Minimize frustation: Use others' work
8. Minimize frustation by… expecting some frustation along the way
Learning process can be frustrating at time… but it's worth it!!
Easy to make your work transparent and scalable
R is free + R is powerful = R is awesome!
Link to resources list
Link to Presentation R code
Link to Small multiples map R code